Tire



IVI. C. OVERIVIAN.

TIRE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 25, Illj.

Paiented May 18, i920.,

the lower portion 5 W`10se 'spaced apw-:t openl b all 10km. zmag/ conc-cfm:

YV Wt x GYRUS GvMAN, Unge Smiles, resi@ m v York? i Y., hav@ invented mais 1n new lsefu Improvement in the fo owmgg i0 a specihcntlo no improve- 'es similar L0 that Shown "no prenmize 'he ruslng 01' Your" soun created by Said time when 'ong fast inA yo'ad-n'act.

In i119 drawings, Jggmfe .L a 013655-550 onm 'View of :s ang'e. wheel-56113! Wih an a'ached tire o which my presen mpov'e ment has been mpied, said Fig. l being a section on the line l-l in g. 2 looking in the direction ef the arrows; and 2 is an undeneah p' an View of the tire of Fig. l.

Wino'w escbe the pecfc devices "the drawings. wget-hay wh gif-esem mprovemein set for in ish@ annexed claims.

tion are. intended tu `ma? a section of the tue posltwnd as m Fig.

surrounded by h@ Tim bolted to "che sldes 2. 3 3 we the of the ey.

The lustmed sin is, of Couffse, nended o be made of v ifbe 0;" 'rubber compuuns Ur their equivalen". T53', comwises wheeln confined beween engaging upper-p@ o the whee-1im 2 am, the manges 33. ntegml Wh said upper poion of he cire is @nimm 6 is l* fdl@ pmaiiv 3: bellows '7-7., subsaualy V-shaped l), with the. zops OL'L' the Ws ai the um)I Orton of hetre and with tlm booms o ne Ws in the law-ver goftion aff the r'e dirs-:ted @Wadi ih@ hread. These holows exmc' longitudinay, prei:- embly coniluwusly sol Without inte'ruption, wound and hmu "1 ih@ tire in spaced, pa alef relaonffhp wim each other.

tire is how by mean 0i which are save azy m cross-secuela l Speccaol. of Letters Patent,

ing' upper y lows. im eentaly z Clamping' ia engagement he upper p@ extends cir@ Vm* @4135. 4) Webs or sald iaiare S its many' prouces a. ing-commet have disc@ ''u ugh rbh abe o 'zag-sous Whose bei sub-.Gia said parts j;

2. A tire Whose crosssection with the tread downward comprises av Whee1-engaging upper portion; and a lower portion whose bottom is the tread of the tire hziv- 5 ing a substantially fiat Contact with the rond,

said lower portion being divided into lateral parts by a cleft extending up through it from the tread, said cleft extending cil-cumn ferentially around the tire interrupted at intervals by cross-webs uniting said lateral parts flush with the tread of the tire, said cross-webs alternately around the tire being perforated.

MAX CYRUS OVERMAN. 

